Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'

Matthias Schniedermeyer
2011-10-28T13:05:50Z

On 28.10.2011 14:29, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de> wrote:
>
> > On 28.10.2011 09:54, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > ? It would be very obvious at a glance what it does.
> > > >
> > > > This fits in the generic "I have a .config and I want to enable an
> > > > additional option" functionality:
> > > >
> > > > make oldconfig CONFIG_KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE=y
> > > >
> > > > Don't we already have that support? I seem to remember it flying
> > > > by. Or was it just a proposal that never got implemented?
> > >
> > > Well, it would be nice to have something (much) shorter and more
> > > obvious, as we really expect to use this frequently.
> > >
> > > Maybe:
> > >
> > > make oldconfig kvm
> >
> > Maybe something more obvious?:
> > make modconfig kvm
> > or
> > make modconfig=kvm
>
> Well, i run distinctly non-modular kernels so modconfig would not be
> particularly good. Also, many of the features enabled are non-modular
> core kernel features to begin with.

I thougt about that just as i send the e-mail, to near to "mod"ular.
What i meant was "mod"ify.

And AFAICS there currently is no "modconfig", only an "allmodconfig"
(and "localmodconfig")

With no letters dropped it would be less ambiguous.
make modifyconfig=kvm

Bis denn

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